Definitions for Quiche

Quiche quiche

Spelling: [keesh]
IPA: /kiʃ/

Quiche is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Quiche (cehiqu).

Definitions for Quiche

noun

  1. a pielike dish consisting of an unsweetened pastry shell filled with a custard and usually containing cheese and other ingredients, as vegetables, seafood, or ham:
  2. a Mayan language of Guatemala.

Origin of Quiche

1945-50; French German (dial.) Küche, diminutive of Küchen cake

Examples for Quiche

quiche is the name of a place, and means “many trees;” the derivation of Quichua is unknown.

Tzinacantan (quiche Zotzilha) 'doit avoir t le berceau de la nation zotzil, l'une des nombreuses populations du Chiapas.'

The quiche legend, already referred to, speaks of Gucumatz only as a god.

Also the quetzal, the imperial bird of the great Indian quiche race, and the Trogan resplendens.

The legends were in quiche with a Spanish translation and scholia.

To make the tart, butter the inside of a 10-inch quiche mold or springform pan.

At last she died after the sixth, from eating four huge pieces of quiche before her churching.

The resemblance is so obvious that no detail in the quiche scale calls for special mention.

Very nearly or quite the same organization prevailed in the courts of quiche and Atitlan.

On entering the kingdom of quiche, they met with a more serious resistance than they had received elsewhere.

Word Value for Quiche
Scrable

20

Words with friends

21

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